Books are the most wonderful friends in the world. When you meet them and pick them up, they are always ready to give you a few ideas. When you put them down, they never get mad; when you take them up again, they seem to enrich you all the more.

Freedom that ignores the transcendent difference between good and evil ends in the denial of freedom itself.

Every child should have an occasional pat on the back as long as it is applied low enough and hard enough.

If you do not worship God, you worship something, and nine times out of ten it will be yourself.

The world would hate His followers, not because of evil in their lives, but precisely because of the absence of evil or rather their goodness. Goodness does not cause hatred, but it gives occasion for hatred to manifest itself. The holier and purer a life, the more it would attract malignity and hate. Mediocrity alone survives.

When we die to something, something comes alive within us. If we die to self, charity comes alive; if we die to pride, service comes alive; if we die to lust, reverence for personality comes alive; if we die to anger, love comes alive.

Fasting detaches you from this world. Prayer reattaches you to the next world.